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Holistic Guidance - Two Mrs Carrolls
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List Price: $19.98
Our Price: $46.95
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Starring: Barry Bernard, Humphrey Bogart, Nigel Bruce, Colin Campbell, Ann Carter
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302375824
Format: Black & White
ISBN: 6302375827
Label: MGM (Warner)
Manufacturer: MGM (Warner)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Warner)
Release Date: 1998-09-01
Running Time: 99
Studio: MGM (Warner)
Theatrical Release Date: 1947-03-04
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Summary: Love this movie!
Comment: This is a great example of film noir. I wish it would come out in DVD format.
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Summary: Portrait of the Artist as a Widower
Comment: There is an outdoor scene in Scotland. Artist Jeffrey is sketching Sally. A sudden rain causes them to seek shelter. A letter falls, and is found by Sally. She learns about Jeffrey Carroll's wife and child. Sally can never marry him now. Jeffrey stops at a chemist before returning home. His daughter Bea is quite precocious and perfect. Then its two years later. The first Mrs. Carroll is long dead, and Sally is the new Mrs. Carroll! Mr. Charles Pennington brings along Mrs. Latham and her daughter Cecily (who wants her portrait painted). We see that the chemist Blagdon out in the road waiting for Jeffrey.
There is a local horse race and they all attend. [We learn about their culture.] Mr. Carroll pays a large amount to the chemist who sold him something he had to sign for. The second Mrs. Carroll now suffers form an illness. Her doctor Tuttle says she's doing well, "its just nerves". Cecily Latham drops by to tell Jeffrey she will be going abroad. A creditor calls Jeffrey and presses him for money. [We see a hidden facet of Jeffrey's character.] Bea tells Sally about the health of her late mother. She also knows about Mr. Blagdon. Sally know realizes what her problem is. And in London Jeffrey fixes his problem with Mr. Blagdon.
The guests arrive for a dinner party. Sally is ill, Jeffrey returns very late. The guests leave during a rainy night. Jeffrey brings some milk to Sally, but Sally's taste has changed. Jeffrey decides to fix another problem. But fate intervenes and provides an ending that is happy for some.
[This film was taken from a stage play. The fascination with murder (for sex or money or both) provides popular entertainment in England. Is this because of their censorship?]
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Summary: UNDERRATED FORTIES FILM NOIR GEM!!
Comment: While Bogart is laughable in some scenes, this is Stanwyck's picture all the way and SHE ALONE is the reason to watch. Stanwyck can make anything work and this film is a classic underrated, moody forties film piece. It is great fun to watch with thunder, lightning, strange portraits, a demented man out to kill his wife, a slithering vixen, a precocious child, and a set of wild circumstances brought into play with force, violence and a great dramatic score. Stanwyck devotees will not be disappointed and Bogart (not my favorite actor by any means)plays well off of her.
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Summary: Lackluster Women's Noir, but the Stars Make it Worthwhile
Comment: Humphrey Bogart and Barbara Stanwyck play interestingly against type as psychologically troubled artist Gerry Carroll and his fragile second wife, Sally. The problem isn't the acting or (in my opinion) the casting, but the clunky script. In the opening scene, Sally accidentally learns that new flame Gerry is married when (*clears throat for comic effect*) a letter to "Mrs. Carroll" falls out of his pocket. Swearing to never see Gerry again, Sally runs off into the rain, only to turn up married to Gerry three scenes later, after wife number one is dead. From there, the turns of plot become ever more convenient and clichéd, and yet somehow less logical at the same time. The script both swills in extraneous information and leaves too much unexplained, and the film overall is like a clothesline, with the plot points hung on awkwardly at predictable intervals.
But if there were ever two stars that could save bad material, it was Bogart and Stanwyck. Bogie made the choppy, incoherent character Gerry come out to more than the sum of his parts. And Stany, rest her soul, did her best in everything, from Preston Sturges literary tour de force *The Lady Eve* to the string of nickel westerns she did in the '50s. This pairing deserved a better vehicle, but it's fun to watch even so.
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Summary: Stanwyck's Great, As Always
Comment: As stated in my title, Stanwyck is, as always, great in this movie. She never gave a bad performance, professional that she was. However, Bogart overacted and mugged so terribly for the camera - his exaggerated hand gestures, in particular, are annoying - that the movie is laughable. In fact, it was laughed off the screen when it was released in 1947, two years after filming was completed. I can't imagine what was going on in his mind when he filmed this movie. Stanwyck, professional and committed to perfection once she agreed to appear in a movie, almost certainly regretted starring in this one. This was one of those "stinkers" she referred to in an interview later in her life....still, if only for her acting and for the cliche' atmospherics in the film - which includes endlessly chiming church bells that would drive ANYONE mad, gloomy English rain, the overbearing maid who insults everyone, and a house that looks as if it was decorated with Dracula in mind, it's worth seeing, at least once. Nigel Bruce overacts terribly as the whiskey-loving doctor who attributes every illness to "nerves." And the final confrontation between Bogart and Stanwyck, when Bogart enters Stanwyck's locked bedroom through a second-story window, in the rain, his face lighted from underneath somehow so that he looks extremely confused, almost embarrassed - and certainly not ghoulish, as I'm sure he was intended to, is hilarious. If you weren't laughing before, you'll laugh at this scene. It would have been interesting to see Stanwyck and Bogart reunited in a better movie. They might have had an interesting chemistry. I would love to have seen Stanwyck in a role with Bogart that would have displayed her strength and toughness. See this movie, at least once. Not a good movie - but very interesting.
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